On a campaign trip, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic lit candles at a Russian Orthodox Church and kissed icons of Jesus and the Virgin Mary before dashing off to meet about 100 voters in a local factory.
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Alexander Zakharchenko, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People Republic, goes out from a meeting with the OSCE supervisors on Sept. 15, 2014 in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.
